YOUR PARTY made a second attempt at launching its membership portal today, hoping to draw a line under a troubled week for the new party of the left.

Launching the official membership portal with a video, Jeremy Corbyn said “we have had some fraught days in the last week as you will no doubt be very aware and to be honest we haven’t covered ourselves in glory.”

Last week fellow MP Zarah Sultana launched a different membership system without Mr Corbyn’s agreement, leading to damaging public statements, legal threats and mutual accusations.

Ms Sultana did not immediately indicate support for the new system, as negotiations to resolve the conflict behind the scenes are continuing.

One difficulty is the intense anger felt by other members of the Independent Alliance group in the Commons, after Sultana branded them a “sexist boys’ club.”

Mr Corbyn said people were “coming together to form a party that will fight prejudice, campaign for peace, act against climate breakdown and deliver social justice.”

He added that he and other MPs would not direct the party, which “will belong to the grassroots. Members will take key decisions through one member one vote.”

A large conference is planned for late November, to be preceded by regional assemblies. It appears that members of other political parties will not be allowed to join, a move aiming at “barring the revolutionary left groups” in the words of one organiser.

Such groups are often seen as the source of divisive disputes, something the new party clearly has no need for help with.